Artists
Simone Fattal
- Born 1942 in Damascus, Syria. Based in Paris, France.
Simone Fattal was raised in Lebanon, where she studied philosophy at the École des Lettres in Beirut. She then moved to Paris, where she continued her studies at the Sorbonne. In 1969 she returned to Beirut and began working as a visual artist, exhibiting her paintings until the start of the Lebanese Civil War. She left Lebanon in 1980 and settled in California, where she founded the Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative literary work. In 1988 she enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, which prompted a return to her artistic practice and a newfound dedication to sculpture.
- Selected exhibitions
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- 2024
- Solo exhibition, metaphorS, Secession (Vienna, Austria)
- 2023
- Solo exhibition, The Manifestations of the Voyage, Portikus (Frankfurt, Germany)
- 2022
- 59th Venice Biennale, International Art Exhibition: The Milk of Dreams (Italy)
- 2021
- Solo exhibition, Finding a Way, Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK)
- 2019
- Solo exhibition, Works and Days, MoMA PS1 (New York, USA)
- “Mushrooms in a Forest” 2023
- Photo: Wolfgang Günzel.